The Week
The Graduate Student Council (GSC) Diversity Advocacy Committee (DAC) is proud to present Graduate Student Diversity Week, April 20-24. Join us for a series of five exciting events to share personal stories, explore identities, start conversations, and develop skills to promote and respect diversity. Historically, Diversity Week was the flagship event of the DAC. We are reviving this tradition this year, and bringing together graduate students from across the Stanford campus to discover, discuss and debate topics of interest surrounding diversity issues and concepts. Our events include panel discussions, experiential hands-on workshops, and free-form discussions. We hope you will join us in these wonderful events. We appreciate RSVPs (links below) to help with planning. To be connected with the DAC without becoming active members, please join our “friends of the DAC” mailing list!
The Events
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Are you a member of a community that is underrepresented in your program? Are you passionate about improving diversity, starting conversations and building support networks across the Stanford grad student community? Meet Stanford grad school alumni who have already traveled this journey, and learn from their stories and experiences. Panelists are: Dr Erika Bustamante, PhD (Developmental Biology) 2011; Professor Maria Luisa Alaniz, PhD (Sociology of Education/Education Evaluation) 1987; Arturo Cazares, MBA 1989.
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Getting to graduate school is only half the battle for many grad students from first-generation and/or low-income backgrounds. Many of these students face challenges adapting to the grad school environment and feeling a sense of belonging. Join us for a panel discussion about these challenges, and hear from other students about their experiences. Panelists are: Professor Hazel Markus, Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences; Professor Juan Santiago, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Professor Paula Welander, Assistant Professor of Earth System Science and Natassia Rodriguez, PhD Student in Sociology.
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Difference Makers: The Future Leadership Imperative
Leadership Workshop | Please RSVP here!
Wednesday, April 22 | 9am-12pm (lunch included) | Graduate Community Center, Havana Room
 As a future leader in industry, academia, government or your community, will you have the necessary leadership skills to guide a diverse team towards achieving a common goal? How well will you work with teammates with vastly different backgrounds and experiences? Join us in an interactive, experiential leadership development workshop with renowned management consultant Milano Harden, to explore aspects of leadership including nurturing empathy, embracing difference, and cultivating understanding of diversity.
Milano Harden is the president and founder of The Genius Group, Inc (TGG), an organization dedicated to transforming communities through supporting leadership, equity, and organizational effectiveness. With past positions at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University, and the American Hospital Association, Milano has extensive experience and training in philanthropic strategy, leadership and organizational development, nonprofit management, equity and inclusion, and community health improvement.
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We talk about diversity at Stanford all the time. Who hasn’t thought about diversity once or twice (or hundreds of times) a day…walking from class to class, building to building? Perhaps you are in support, skeptical, or critical. During Diversity Week, we are offering a platform and venue to discuss anonymous experiences that bring into question what we mean by diversity–institutionalized and non-institutionalized, and shed a new light into the prospects of our graduate community. In this event, we will discuss, contrast, expand or wonder about the confessions posted on Facebook and the GSC DAC Confessions website. You may contribute more experiences during the event. IMPORTANT: You do not need to contribute a confession to participate in this event.
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Implicit Bias Workshop
 
Interactive Workshop | Please RSVP here!
Friday, April 24 | 9:15-10:15am (breakfast at 9am)
Graduate Community Center, Nairobi Room
Have you ever noticed that you might have some relatively unconscious biases or prejudiced judgement towards social groups and behaviors? Discover your biases through an implicit bias test followed by a constructive discussion! Our discussion features Stanford Graduate Diversity Recruitment Officer Joseph Brown, who has experience conducting and discussing implicit bias test and the results. Dr. Ashwini Lal from CAPS will also help participants through this great learning process. Please RSVP and bring your own laptop to the event to take the test. |
The Team
